Call to Adventure: Cinderella hears about a festival for the prince, and wants to go. Trials: Cinderella does all of the things that her step mother told her to do in order for her to go to the festival. ● Crisis: Her stepmother doesn’t let Cinderella go to the festival. ● New Life: Cinderella continues to go to the party, because she now has the tree and birds that help her. ● ●

Call to Adventure: The old woman has to find medicine for her Grandson. Trials: She has to find medicine for her Grandson. ● Crisis: The old woman talks to him, to ease his mind so he doesn't shoot her. ● New Life: The old woman finds the medicine and returns home to her grandson. ● ●

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Call to Adventure: Amir receives a letter from Rahim Khan that Hassan had wrote him telling him to

adopt his son Sohrab. ● Trials: Amir has to go back to Afghanistan and find Sohrab. ● Crisis: After adopting Sohrab, Amir’s father-in-law does not accept Sohrab. ● New Life: Amir stands up for Sohrab, and tells his father-in-law that Sohrab will be living with them.

Cinderella

The Kite Runner

In Iron Man, Tony Stark was very resistant to tell the people that he was Iron Man because he didn’ t know how his life would change, or how the people would react. Stark wondered if building the Iron Man suit and saving people would actually help. He knew that he had to do something, because his weapons were killing innocent people. He decided that being Iron Man and saving people was better than any money or fame.

● Call to Adventure: Tony Stark was captured, and made the first Iron Man suit. ● Trials: Stark decides he doesn’t want to make weapons anymore because they kill innocent people, so he makes the modified Iron Man suit to save people. ● Crisis: Obadiah tried killing Stark, but Stark killed him instead. ● New Life: Stark realizes that there is more to life than money.

Iron Man

A Worn Path

In Cinderella, Cinderella has to work for her stepmother. She never knew what the next day would bring, or if the Prince would ever find her. She had wondered what she should do after her stepmother said she couldn’t go to the party, even after she did what was asked. Cinderella knew that she had to do what she was told, because that was her job. She knew that skipping the work and going straight to the party was evil, and the tree giving her the dress rewarded her for doing her job.

Universal Question:

What will tomorrow be like? What must I do about it? What is good and what is evil?

In A Worn Path, Phoenix walks down a path and wonders what she must do in order to get medicine for her grandson, she didn’t know what the next part of the path would make her go through, or if the medicine would save her grandson. Phoenix had to ask herself the question “What is good? and what is evil?” when she confronted two people on her journey. One of them helped her to find the medicine she needed, while the other threatened to shoot her.

In The Kite Runner, Amir didn’t know when his father was going to die, so each day he had to prepare himself for it. When he adopted Sohrab, he didn’t know what his life would be like with a kid. Amir kept wondering what he should do, tell people about what happened to Hassan? Will it help or hurt Hassan? He wondered if adopting Hassan’s son would help him regain his heroism.

All four of these stories come from completely different cultural views. Cinderella values hard work and never doing less than what she needed to do. Tony Stark started off valuing money and fame, but quickly learned that life is about much more than that. The culture of Phoenix is to help others no matter what it is going to cause you to go through. And finally, Amir values honor and knew that he needed to do something to gain his honor back. All 4 of these cultures in the stories learn and grow as their “mission” continues on, and they change as the story goes on. Even though these are all different cultures and values, they all have one thing in common. They are qualities that heroes have.